The Times famously got the ball rolling with the Pentagon Papers, before the government intervened as Attorney General John N. Mitchell and then-President Nixon obtained a federal court injunction forcing them to cease publication.

It was then, in mid-June 1971, that the Washington Post struck, and it has been said that Spielberg’s finished project downplays the role of the Times journalists, whilst exaggerating the part played by the Washington Post.

Speaking last year, 92-year-old James Greenfield - who coordinated the Pentagon Papers project for the Times - said, according to CJR: “I was furious. It’s all wrong.

“I find it quite inconceivable. This movie is a rip-off.”

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